谈美

美是事物的最有价值的一面，美感的经验是人生中最有价值的一面。 Beauty is the most valuable aspect of things, and aesthetic experience is the most valuable part of life. 美和实际人生有一个距离，要见出事物本身的美，须把它摆在适当的距离之外去看。 Beauty maintains a distance from real life. To perceive the inherent beauty of things, we must view them from an appropriate distance. 欣赏之中都寓有创造，创造之中也都寓有欣赏。 Creation inheres in appreciation, and appreciation inheres in creation. 美不是在物，而是在心。 Beauty lies not in the object, but in the mind. 实用的世界是功利的，审美的世界是自由的。 The practical world is utilitarian; the aesthetic world is free. 艺术并不是现实的复制，而是现实的再创造。 Art is not a copy of reality, but a re-creation of it.